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TargetAudience Content and Outcomes Term Work Lesson Schedule Getting Started Target AudienceFrench 235 is designed for both beginning students with no previous knowledge of French, and so-called false beginners who may have one or two years high-school French. If you are a false beginner, you will probably find the first few lessons easy. Do them anyway as revision, and expect more challenging work very soon.
ContentIn French 235, you will learn some simple strategies for understanding French texts, the fundamentals of French grammar, and a basic vocabulary. At the end of this part of the course, you will have read several dozen texts in French, of varying lengths, navigated to many French Web sites and performed a variety of tasks there.OutcomesStudents who successfully complete French 235 should have a fair level of confidence when reading simple French texts and visiting Web sites for information. They will be able to read for general understanding, with considerable help from a dictionary, simple authentic texts which are narrative (stories) or informative (encyclopedia or newspaper articles, recipes, book titles, instructions, etc.). They will be able to perform tasks based on their understanding of these texts, including finding main ideas and summarizing.Term WorkThis is a self-study course which you can do at your own pace, but you must complete the work for each lesson by the deadline indicated on the Overview page. Completing the work means going through the different components of the lesson (Reading Strategies, Grammar, Text, Web Activities), doing Notebook work in the electronic notebook, and adding around 20 entries to your personal Vocabulary list. More information on this, as well as about grading, is available on the Help page, which you can access from here or by clicking on the Help icon in the Blue Side Menu.
Lesson ScheduleYou must do the lessons during the week they are assigned. Apart from keeping you on a regular schedule, this ensures that the links will have been recently checked and the lessons will be up-to-date. The assigned dates for the lessons in French 235 for Fall 2002 are as follows:
Work posted to the Notebook after the final submission date will not be accepted. Lessons are organized as follows:
2. Reading 3. Web Activities The Preliminary Work is designed to give you tools with which you can carry out the activities on the Web. In French 235, these tools include reading strategies and information about vocabulary and grammar (how French words fit together to create meaning). The preliminary work is contained in separate Web pages, and accompanied by exercises to allow you to practice what you have learned.
Getting StartedTo go through a Lesson simply click on the different parts in the Overview frame. You can use either the Back button on your browser or click on the French 235 logo on the blue side panel to return to the Overview window.
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